Goodbye to Sarah Palin and all that fake Fox outrage nonsense -- Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio the future, thankfully, for GOP

That is actually good news for the GOP, even if many diehards will not see it that way.

That’s because Palin was always on the loony tunes fringe, lacking the basic educational tools to become a respected national candidates.

Her laughable foreign policy responses (‘We can see Russia from here’) in that now infamous Katie Couric interview tagged her for ever as an intellectual lightweight and she did nothing subsequently to remove that image.

She was in many ways a Fox News creation with Roger Ailes describing her as ‘hot’ which hardly went down well with many women.

Contrast her with Congressman Paul Ryan, a cool, measured, deeply intellectual fellow, who is already one of the front runners for 2016.

The GOP will simply have to learn that the quick fix, fake outrage, hot button issues of the day as exemplified by Fox coverage does not play in the long run. It is all sugar calories, delightful at first bite, but then meaningless.

I watched Paul Ryan on ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday and saw a bright, convincing politician who is in it for the long run.